About Steven Sinofsky
Hardcore Software is a non-fiction, first-person account of the rise and fall of the PC revolution serialized through this platform.
Through this first-person account of my time at Microsoft, I aim to convey to you an insider’s story of growing influence and corporate obstacles, the evolution of technology that changed the world, and most of all the people that made it happen.
Hardcore Software shares the ups and downs of building massive software projects used by billions of people around the world. The scale of the software increases as the narrator and participant grows, starting as an individual contributor on pioneering tools for building Windows applications then rising to leading Microsoft Office and then Microsoft Windows. Steven Sinofsky shares his experiences creating and managing successful software as well as the lessons that come from failure.
We learn the inside story of how Microsoft tackled the challenges of the rise of the internet, the creation of Windows 95 and Office 95, and the wildly successful pivot to building enterprise products as Sinofsky works for Chairman/CEO Bill Gates as technical assistant and then as a member and eventual leader of the Office team.